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CREATIVE SCOTLAND UPDATE – submission to the Inquiry into the impact of Covid-19 on Scotland’s Culture and Tourism Sectors Creative Scotland has been providing monthly updates to the Committee on our ongoing response to, and the impact of, the Covid-19 pandemic. For this, our update for January 2021, we also include a review of our Covid-19 response activity since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 by way of a contribution to the Committee’s ongoing inquiry into the impact of Covid-19 on Scotland’s Culture and Tourism sectors. All previous monthly updates to the Committee can be found here. 1. Creative Scotland response to Covid-19 Following the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 it was immediately clear that the art and creative sector would be severely impacted by the necessary restrictions put in place to protect public health. With the support of the Scottish Government and the National Lottery, we quickly adapted our operations and resources to prioritise the delivery of emergency funding to people and organisations in the sector. This adaptation also included, like all public bodies, internal adaptations in terms of moving to the situation where all staff are working from home and delivering Creative Scotland and Screen Scotland support remotely. 1.1 Timeline of Creative Scotland’s Covid-19 response The timeline below provides an overview of the key actions, and outcomes, as regards Creative Scotland’s Covid-19 response. It should be noted, however, that alongside this our ongoing support for the art and creative sector continues through other non- Covid specific funding programmes (for example Regular Funding, Open Funding, and a range of smaller more targeted funding programmes) and through our ongoing advocacy for, and promotion of, the work of the sector. The following timeline focuses on key Covid-19 response actions only, in line with the scope of this update and the Committee’s inquiry: 2020 • 17 March: Publication of Covid-19 advice to support and inform the art and creative sector. • 20 March: Update on Creative Scotland action and response to Covid-19 giving advance notice on forthcoming emergency funds. • 27 March: Announcement of £11m emergency support package through three funding programmes (Creative Scotland Bridging Bursary Fund, Screen Scotland Bridging Bursary Fund and re-purposed Open Fund). • 20 April: Announcement of a further £2m in emergency funding support for the Bridging Bursary Fund. • 28 April: Announcement of £600m National Lottery support to address the impact of Covid-19, including £10m repurposed funding through Creative Scotland’s Open Fund. • 30 April: Opening of a £100m support package for SMEs, including cultural businesses, to be delivered by the Enterprise Agencies and Creative Scotland. • 19 May: Update on the first 865 recipients of Bridging Bursary support. • 19 June: Announcement of £1.3m in repurposed funding through the Youth Music Initiative (YMI) to continue music access through Covid-19. • 03 July: £10m emergency funding announced for Scotland’s Performing Arts Venues. • 08 July: Further update on the 2,200 recipients of Bridging Bursary support. • 29 July: Performing Arts Venues Relief Fund opens, including an additional £2.5m taking the fund total to £12.5m. • 05 August: First recipients of the Performing Arts Venues Relief Fund are announced. • 19 August: the £2.2m emergency support fund for Grassroots Music Venues is announced. • 28 August: the £15m Culture Organisation and Venues Relief Fund is announced as part of a £59m Scottish Government package for culture and heritage. • 03 September: Screen Scotland launches a £3.5m emergency fund to support Independent Cinemas. • 10 September: the £15m Culture Organisation and Venues Relief Fund launches. • 17 September: £3m in emergency support for Youth Arts is announced. • 12 September: Screen Scotland announces £700k hardship fund for Screen freelancers. • 22 September: 68 recipients of the Grassroots Music Venue Stabilisation Fund are announced. • 24 September: A further 59 recipients of the Performing Arts Venues Relief Fund are announced. • 01 October: we published a comprehensive round up of Covid-19 emergency funds in order to keep the sector as informed as possible. This became a weekly update. • 15 October: Hardship Fund for Creative Freelancers announced, to be partially delivered through cultural sector partners. • 03 November: Recipients of the Independent Cinema Recovery Fund are announced. • 04 November: the £1.5m Culture Collective initiative is launched. • 05 November: the first tranche of recipients of the Culture Organisation and Venues Recovery Fund are announced. • 12 November: the first recipients of the £3m emergency funding for Youth Arts are announced. • 19 November: the second tranche of recipients of the Culture Organisation and Venues Recovery Fund are announced. • 03 December: Creative Scotland’s Covid-19 sector survey is opened, to assess the ongoing impact of the pandemic on the art and creative sector. • 10 December: New £600k Touring Fund for Theatre and Dance is opened, supported by the National Lottery. • 15 December: Further recipients of the £3m in emergency funding for Youth Arts are announced. • 20 December: a further £4m is announced to support another round of the Grassroots Music Venues Sustainability Fund. 2 2021 • 13 January: we publish the findings from the second wave of our Covid-19 population survey, which seeks to understand public expectations and intentions as regards culture in the light of the pandemic. • 18 January: £3m in additional support is announced for three pivotal performing arts organisations, Eden Court, Aberdeen Performing Arts and Capital Theatres. • 20 January: the second, £4m round of the Grassroots Music Venues Stabilisation Fund opens. • 27 January: Creative Digital Initiative announced. A £1m programme of development and support, coordinated by Creative Scotland and involving all the enterprise agencies. 1.2 Number and value of awards In terms of the number and value of awards Creative Scotland has made through Covid-19 emergency funds in the financial year 2020/21 to date, these are: • 6,464 Covid-19 emergency fund awards totalling £43,528,766 (421 to organisations and 6,043 to individuals, including 1,935 Hardship Funding awards made to individuals through partners). In addition to this, through Creative Scotland’s normal, non-Covid funds (Regular Funding, Open Funding, YMI, etc.) the number and value in the financial year to date are: • 913 funding awards totalling £63,005,280 (557 to organisations and 356 to individuals) This equates to a total number of awards made so far in 2020/21 of 7,377 which is more than five times the number of awards that Creative Scotland would normally make each year, pre-Covid. It’s worth noting that, by the end of the financial year 2020/21, Creative Scotland will have distributed £64m in emergency funds, which includes funds provided by the Scottish Government, the National Lottery, and £1m from the Freelands Foundation (for Bridging Bursaries). 1.3 Current Covid-19 response activity Creative Scotland’s top priority continues to be the delivery of emergency funding to support the art and creative sector through the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Below is an update on the live emergency funds at 01 February: • The £5m Hardship Fund for Creative Freelancers addresses the financial hardship being felt by creative freelancers in the creative sector. We were working with sector partners to deliver this fund and we announced who those partners were on 15 October and the fund opened for applications on 26 October. On 03 November, the Scottish Government announced an additional £3m, taking the total available for this fund to £8m, and, following a pause, we re-opened for a second round of applications on 10 November. The fund will close on 01 February. 3 • The £5m Sustaining Creative Practice Fund supports artists to continue developing new creative work that will make a significant contribution to Scotland’s recovery from COVID-19. There are two elements to this fund: o £1.5 million for the Culture Collective programme, supporting organisations employing freelance artists to work in and with communities across Scotland. Details of the Culture Collective programme were announced on 04 November with a call out for notes of interest by 18 November. The Fund received 148 Expressions of Interest (EOIs) totalling £28million. 64 organisations, with proposals totalling £14million, have now been invited to make full applications. Awards will be announced at the beginning of February. o £3.5m which has been added to Creative Scotland’s existing open fund, available for applications from individuals now. The application threshold has been increased from £50,000 to £100,000 and we are progressing plans to simplify and streamline the process, starting with individuals and followed by that for organisations. • On 10 December we announced the Touring Fund for Theatre and Dance to support Covid-safe touring work from Spring 2021, supported by £600,000 National Lottery funding. The deadline for applications is 05 February 2021. • On 12 November, we announced that 18 Youth Music and Youth Arts organisations have received a total of £1,053,000 to help the recovery of Youth Arts across Scotland and ensure creative opportunities for children and young people continue despite the continued impact of Covid-19. On 03 December we opened for expressions of interest for the Time to Shine, Nurturing Talent Fund and on 15 December we announced the recipients of the £700,000 Small Grants Scheme. Further announcements will follow regarding recipients of at least £2m through the Access to Youth Arts Fund. • Creative Scotland Crowdmatch in collaboration with Crowdfunder - the UK’s largest crowdfunding platform - offering expert coaching and match funding, to support Scotland’s creatives to run successful crowdfunding campaigns with Creative Scotland contributing up to £75,000 of match funding from the National Lottery. • The Open Fund: Sustaining Creative Development, has been open for applications since April 2020.
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